Rich in insight and compassion, Lost and Found is an eloquent exploration of the psychological issues faced by adoptees and by all children who have been separated from a parent and denied the right to know their true origins. Betty Jean Lifton, herself an adoptee, draws upon her own experience and her extensive work with adoptees, birth mothers and fathers, and adoptive parents to explore the harmful effects of secrecy on the identity of a child and the liberating possibilities of openness. A new Preface links the psychology of the adopted to that of babies born of surrogacy and other reproductive technologies. And a new Afterword explores the most recent developments in the adoption field, such as post-adoption counseling, open adoption, and the controversy around the adoption syndrome. The author concludes with a code of rights and responsibilities for everyone in the adoption circle, along with an updated list of support groups and counseling clinics for the adoption triad in the United States and Canada.

Lost & Found: The Adoption Experience

Parenting & Relationships

LIFTON,Betty Jean

Adoption

Harper-perennial

Told at seven that she was adopted and at thirty that her natural parents were still living, the author recounts her psychological, emotional, and actual search for her origins and her subsequent meeting and relationship with her natural mother

Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

McGraw=Hill

A reissue of the classic 1975 memoir that Elie Wiesel called "deeply stirring…important and enriching."In this significant and lasting account, Betty Jean Lifton, acclaimed author of several books on the psychology of the adopted, tells her own story of growing up at a time when adoptees were still in the closet. Twice Born recounts her early struggle with the loneliness and isolation of not knowing her birth parents; her identification, as a journalist in the Far East, with the orphans left behind by American soldiers in Japan and Vietnam; and the guilt she experiences over what feels like a betrayal of her adopted parents as she sets off on a forbidden quest to find her roots.With the mounting suspense of a detective novel, Twice Born explores the difficulty of searching for one's past when records are sealed, and the complexity of reuniting with a birth mother from whom one has been separated by both time and social taboos. More than a vivid and poignant memoir, Lifton has given us a story of mothering and mother-loss, attachment and bonding, secrets and lies, and the human need for origins.

Twice Born

Penguin??Books

With the help of his friends, a kind scarecrow is able to prove he is scarier than Toho the Terrible

Joji and the Amanojaku (Dragon)

Children's Books

Linnet Books

A classic as stirring as Schindler's List, The King of Children is the acclaimed biography of the first advocate of children's rights and the man known as the savior of hundreds of orphans in the Warsaw ghetto. Janusz Korczak was known throughout Europe as a Pied Piper of destitute children even before the onslaught of World War II. But on August 6, 1942, Korczak stepped into legend. Refusing offers for his own safety, and with defiant dignity, he led the orphans under his care in the Warsaw Ghetto to the trains that would take them to Treblinka. An educator and pediatrician, Korczak, a Polish Jew, introduced progressive orphanages for both the Jewish and Catholic children in Warsaw. Determined to shield his children from the injustices of the adult world, he built these orphanages into "just communities" with their own parliaments and children's courts. Korczak also founded the first national children's newspaper, testified on behalf of children in juvenile courts, and trained teachers and parents in "moral education," with his books How to Love a Child and How to Respect a Child. The King of Children is now recognized as a classic work for educators, historians, parents, and anyone who lives or works with a child. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

The King of Children: The Life and Death of Janusz Korczak

Historical

St. Martin's: Griffin

The classic memior of Betty Jean Lifton's search for her secret past that helped open the way for so many others. Betty Jean Lifton, acclaimed author of several books on the psychology of the adtoped that have helped open the field, tells her own story of growing up adtoped in the closed adoption system. Calling Twice Born both an autobiography and a psychological journey into the past, Lifton takes the reader with her as she describes the loneliness and islolation of an adopted child cut off from the knowledge of her heritage. She explores the ambivalence and guilt that she feels toward her adoptive parents when she awakens as an adult to her need to ask: Who am I? With the mounting suspense of a detective novel, Twice Born explores not only the difficulty of searching for one's past when one's records are sealed, but also the complexity of trying to reunite with the birth mother from whom one has been separated by social taboos--and by time. More than a vivid and poinant memior, Lifton has given hs a story of mothering and mother-loss attachment and bonding, secrets and lies, and the human need for origins. Important reading for anyone touched by these issues and by the experience of adoption--which is everyone.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Based on his own writings as well as interviews conducted with the orphans he raised and teachers he trained, this biography captures the remarkable life and tragic death of the Polish-Jewish doctor who spent a lifetime helping children

King of Children: A Biography of Janusz Korczak

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

A history assignment to explore her roots propels a high school junior into a search for her biological parents.

I'm Still Me

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

Knopf Books for Young Readers

A history assignment prompts Lori Elkins, an adopted sixteen-year-old girl, to investigate the identity of her natural parents

Betty Jean Lifton, whose Lost and Found has become a bible to adoptees and to those who would understand the adoption experience, explores further the inner world of the adopted person. She breaks new ground as she traces the adopted child's lifelong struggle to form an authentic sense of self. And she shows how both the symbolic and the literal search for roots becomes a crucial part of the journey toward wholeness.

Journey Of The Adopted Self: A Quest For Wholeness

Basic Books

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Lost & Found: The Adoption Experience

Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter

Twice Born

Joji and the Amanojaku (Dragon)

The King of Children: The Life and Death of Janusz Korczak

Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter

King of Children: A Biography of Janusz Korczak

I'm Still Me

I'm Still Me

Journey Of The Adopted Self: A Quest For Wholeness